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Is there a safe way to run multiple desktop environments on Ubuntu 22.04? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have tried it on several distros before and it always causes problems because you get a million more packages intermingled with your already installed packages and sometimes you get conflicts or whatever. But it usually messes up my system. is there a safe way to have several desktops installed? or do you pretty much install a new one then remove the old one? thanks

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What a mood. Im very guilty of not making backups and ruining setups only to have to start all over.

I'm a fairly new linux user so this is bound to happen again lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One word: Timeshift

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Ive heard timeshift is good. Now i just gotta actually use it.

Hows the experience with timeshift been when youve used it? Pretty easy to restore from?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pretty easy, and it's saved my bacon a handful of times. Most recently I restored from command line because I borked my display driver (legacy Nvidia user).

Aside from that instance, everything else was done through the GUI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh dude i never do backups each time i start over from scratch its a brand new version of linux. the only "important" files (that I know of), i sync to the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Haha i feel that man. I'm thinking of switching to Linux entirely and ditching Windows so i gotta get better at making backups otherwise its gonna be full reinstalls no stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh thats neat. I'm assuming that can be configured for other package managers when you're calling the apt equivalent?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thats really good to know. Thanks for taking the time to explain that.